Bottled water the new public enemy
Nanny Government isn’t happy with bottled water. Good little proletariates drink their water from the tap. They know better than to incur the wrath of the all knowing all seeing Goracle and his dominion over the Church of Gaia Mother Earth.
Nanny Government thinks for you. Life is better when your choices are restricted. You should not be allowed to make complex choices like drinking bottled water. Those bottles are made from oil. Then they are shipped to market which burns more oil and releases the Earth toxin C02 which causes forest creatures to die.
Plastic bottles should only be used for important things like Coca Cola. Nanny Science says so and Nanny Government complies because it is for the children.
August 15th, 2007 at 12:09 pm
I’ve never understood why people pay for water in a bottle when there’s perfectly good H2O coming out of the tap, and it’s practicly free.
August 15th, 2007 at 12:40 pm
I like distilled water in the 5 gallon containers. No chlorine or fluoride. But a bottled water for the car is convenient. I take at least one every day. I am not into the fancy stuff. If it costs as much as a beer I prefer beer. For some reason I never developed a taste for soda pop. Too sweet.
But this Global Warming induced nannyism is ridiculous.
August 15th, 2007 at 12:50 pm
Somehow, I missed the part of the story where “nanny government” “restricted” anyone’s choice of anything. Perhaps you could give me the bill number of the proposed legislation to ban bottled water, or list its co-sponsors. Then we could write them and tell them to oppose this.
Instead, somehow a public awareness campaign with no restriction of choice whatsoever somehow is equated with an unconscionable infringement of personal freedom of choice. Methinks someone ODed on the Hyperbol-O’s this morning.
August 15th, 2007 at 12:56 pm
The only way paying the price for bottled water makes sense to me is if there are no better alternatives for when one is mobile. The rest of the time it makes no sense. This first started as a status thing and the more expensive the water the cooler you were.
It was part of the $3000 dollar jogger outfit. People who couldn’t afford designer clothes shouldn’t try to run attitude. It just extended to rehydration also. No real yuppie could be seen drinking “common” water.
We took a 4400 mile road trip this summer. We consumed two cases of bottled water. Er, my wife did. I bathe in it, I don’t drink unless it has something in it I like. We paid for bottled water because we could put it in the ice chest in manageable sizes and we could have it available no matter how far it was to somewhere at the time we got thirsty. To me, it was a sensible use of bottled water. (Especially considering how cranky my wife gets with me when I don’t want to stop) We still have some of the bottles. My wife refills them with our well water, freezes them and carries them around with her all day at work. Hey! I guess she looks cool even though we paid nothing for that water. The price of the well and accouterments has been amortized.
August 15th, 2007 at 1:03 pm
If they would actually make the water in La Vergne safe to drink (it scored a 36/100 on the state’s testing back at the end of June), I would consider drinking tap water. As it is, no thanks.
August 15th, 2007 at 1:03 pm
Having said all the above and realizing I had forgotten what I meant to say, here goes. It is a little premature to say they are restricting free choice, but it is not too early to say they are laying the groundwork for a campaign to do just that. We’ve seen this before, if they make enough noise someone will sponsor a bill, and the other gutless wonders not wanting to appear anti-green will vote for it.
So I would say the accusation of hyperbole some here have leveled is inaccurate. Let’s just say that it is early prognostication based on historical observations.
Oh, and I’m agin it. Does one never wonder why there isn’t a public awareness campaign about limousines, jet planes, yachts, etc. in government service? Because there is little likelihood the powers that be will vote themselves out of choices, but every chance a well run campaign can get them to vote us out of choices.
August 15th, 2007 at 1:17 pm
Normally I would point out that the billions of plastic water bottles being thrown into landfills are using up dwindling oil supplies at a faster rate. But I will be happy when the oil is gone and we finally have to invent cold fusion or something, so I won’t mention it.
I would also point out that some plastic bottles leach known carcinogens into water over time and that you’d be probably be better off with a reusable stainless steel water bottle filled with filtered tap water. But then I’d just be arguing with people who seem determined to prove Darwin correct, despite their denial of any other science.
August 15th, 2007 at 1:22 pm
Somehow, I missed the part of the story where “nanny government” “restricted” anyone’s choice of anything. Perhaps you could give me the bill number of the proposed legislation to ban bottled water, or list its co-sponsors. Then we could write them and tell them to oppose this.
TG, I knew I could count on you.
Get to work buddy.
And call these politicians too.
Bottled water is the new cigarette. For the children, for the Planet, can’t you just drink tap water?
p.s. They are coming after fat people next…how long until they want to tax the air we breathe?
August 15th, 2007 at 1:45 pm
“We paid for bottled water because we could put it in the ice chest in manageable sizes and we could have it available no matter how far it was to somewhere at the time we got thirsty.”
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SACRILEDGE! Ice chests are for BEER! 🙂
August 15th, 2007 at 2:35 pm
I would also point out that some plastic bottles leach known carcinogens into water over time and that you’d be probably be better off with a reusable stainless steel water bottle filled with filtered tap water. But then I’d just be arguing with people who seem determined to prove Darwin correct, despite their denial of any other science.
Depends on whether you want fluoride in your water. Why would you want to drink a topical dental solution? I have been fluoride free for over 16 years. I put the fluoride on my teeth, not in my body. Seems like common sense.
Insert Dr. Strangelove theories here.
August 15th, 2007 at 4:07 pm
“Bottled water is the new cigarette. For the children, for the Planet, can’t you just drink tap water?” — #9
Um, no.
At my house, over time, the tap water will kill you. It’s loaded with arsenic and a variety of other fun things like a plethora of bacteria, all to far higher levels than deemed “safe” by the DEP. I live in Marxistchusetts, but in a third world neighborhood. To make matters even more fun, the town seems to want to kill the State funded project that We the People (of my third world neighborhood) hope will eventually provide us with safe drinking water and working sewers. In addition to the supply-side problems, the local septic system has been broken for years, if not decades. As a temporary measure to deal with the supply-side problems, we are being provided bottled water for cooking. Unfortunately, we are still forced to bath and wash our clothes and dishes in bacteria laced arsenic. (We’ve been using the cookout gear at the HerrBGone houshold ever since we found out to minimize the dish washing aspect of this as much as possible. Don’t tell the Algoreans…) So, not being suicidal, I won’t be drinking from the tap any time soon.
I do sincerely hope none of you ever find yourselves in a similar situation.
August 15th, 2007 at 5:08 pm
I live in Marxistchusetts, but in a third world neighborhood…
I do sincerely hope none of you ever find yourselves in a similar situation.
Hang in there HerrBGone. A lot of people are in a similar situation.
This idea that we should not be able to have our choice of what we drink in just another attempt by Nanny Government to take away our choices and our rights. Folks in Texas have sulphur water, aka skunk water. To say it is unpleasant is an understatement. Imagine having to hold your nose to drink the water.
August 15th, 2007 at 8:28 pm
POE OPE
August 15th, 2007 at 9:45 pm
We go through tons of bottled water, and the one-gallon jugs left over make the best targets.
Fill them with your non-potable tap water (ours is not rated safe for drinking) and shoot them with your favorite high-powered rifle or magnum shotgun.
Hence, limiting in any way, or hindering in any way, my access to bottled water would be an infringement upon my Second Amendment rights and will accordingly be met with extreme prejudice!
Seriously though, this is a perfect example of how some people simply cannot STAND the freedom and the prosperity we have in America, and all the amazing choices that come with it. When you see people spending money on such things, learn to feel good about it, because its a sign of our success. You make your own choices, leave others the hell alone, and enjoy it! Or as I recently put as a slogan on several of our T-shirts:
“Liberty: Learn it, Live it, Love it!”
The proper response when you see people spending inordinate amounts of money on something would be to start selling that particular something! Better yet, get in front of the next “something” and be the one who gets clean rich* off of it. Now get crackin’, slouchers!
* My pro-capitalist response to the utterly stupid and ignorant term, “filthy rich” (you don’t get rich in a free society without dutifully serving the wants and needs of your fellow man to a higher level than most, you understand).
August 15th, 2007 at 10:30 pm
I don’t know if I have ever said how much I appreciate this place. You did well Uncle. It is great to meet people who really care about the First and Second Amendments.
August 16th, 2007 at 8:54 am
I’ll second that! ^
August 18th, 2007 at 6:45 pm
“p.s. They are coming after fat people next…how long until they want to tax the air we breathe?”-#9
Some have already tried it. Minnesota a few years ago passed a Clean Air tax. No kidding a tax on breathing. Despite having almost no air pollution anywhere in the state that is not naturally occurring. It caused such a furor it was abandoned, but it has already been tried.